Although the technology in this world looks weird in general, it doesn’t seem to be very strong, but on average, it has the level of the 19th century. It is not surprising that the population scale is hundreds of millions, after all, except for the civil strife five hundred years ago. , there are no large-scale wars within the empire.

Due to the large-scale civil wars in ancient times in many countries, about half of them died once they died, and the sharp decline in the population did not occur. Therefore, although many people starved to death due to corruption in recent years, there has been no large-scale famine and large-scale The scale is turbulent, so the population naturally continues to rise. Now it is probably in the peak period of the population, right? After all, it has been peaceful for five hundred years in general, and it would be strange if the population was not large.

Yongye has controlled a total of 400,000 troops in the northern region, although it has lost a lot, but in addition to the continuous recruitment of troops due to the war in the past few years, the number has risen to 500,000.

500,000 li and 200,000 guarded the north to prevent the northern permafrost attack, 100,000 stayed in the west to maintain stability to prevent someone from stabbing a knife in the back, and he himself took the remaining 200,000 to fight against the 800,000 troops gathered by the western kingdom.

A kingdom that is no worse than an empire is completely incomparable to those alien races, so this war, a dozen intermittently, lasts for five years.

During the war, the two sides continued to increase their investment in troops. Yongye also continued to pour in civilians in the empire. The population continued to increase and the military expanded to increase the military. The two sides continued to fight. The total military investment exceeded 3 million, and most of these soldiers had no other. invested in the kingdoms of foreign enemies.

Originally the war would destroy the economy, but in fact the northwestern part of the empire was outside the borders because of the war, and because of proper management, the development in the past five years has gotten better and better. a stark contrast.

Fighting, fighting, and constantly repeating the brutal fighting on the battlefield, Yong Ye himself, who was lost in the killing, killed at least 160,000 of the Kingdom's army.

The slaughter and slaughter made him stronger, only relatively... numb.

What Yong Ye got was not only the killing of 240,000 enemy troops in the past eight years, the continuous promotion in the extremely demanding system, and the acquisition of three knowledge points. Juggernaut, in fact, is more inclined to the Sword Saint inheritance of Storm Juggernaut, and the level has been raised to five levels, and only need to go further to obtain the knowledge of ultimate skills.

The three skill points allowed him to obtain the knowledge of mirror image, the advancement of Alpha Raid, and the advancement of critical strike.

The mirror image can confuse the opponent, and the advanced Alpha Raid greatly increases its teleportation ability and attack ability. The fatal blow also increases the ability to attack. The advanced fatal blow is integrated with the infinite kendo to create a dark red sword. Qi has become more powerful than before.

Getting lost on the battlefield made him seem to be gradually being influenced by the ancient dark races, which was stained with dark red sword qi, perhaps it was more appropriate to call it "the sword qi of death", as the name suggests, giving the enemy death...

Killing an enemy on the battlefield is not just about gaining skill points. After all, what he gains is knowledge rather than the power of a fixed template. Therefore, he has improved some according to his own needs. , is the ability of fusion mutation to create independently.

In addition to this, even if he has no skill points, he has independently advanced the ability to trample on the ground, and the ground fragments rolled up by the shock wave are enough to kill the surrounding enemies like cannonballs.

Among them, his substantial improvement on the battlefield is that he independently learned the mirror improvement ability of Storm Juggernaut—Master Illusion, which allows him to exchange positions with the mirror image under certain restrictions. It can be said to be both offensive and defensive. The ability to escape and kill enemies.

The Way of Promise, the Way of Blades, the Way of Illusions, and the Way of Gale Wind are all constantly improving. It seems that he only needs to move in this direction, and in the future, he will be able to get rid of the restrictions of the Sword Saint inheritance system and spontaneously comprehend the next step like the trampling of war. The ability of the stage, but... the current trajectory seems to be a bit deviated from his own Juggernaut.

Yong Ye, who pursues power, just repeats the movement of swinging his sword, killing the boundless enemies on the battlefield with ease. He has lived five years of things like one day, killing, practicing, and occasionally managing government. There is no fun, and it is so boring. pole.

"I've gotten stronger... I've gotten stronger...but...how do I actually become strong?"

After the enemy army was defeated, on this **** battlefield, Yong Ye sat on the pile of corpses and looked at the dead soldiers of the kingdom with frightened faces. He didn't know what he was doing... The power he craved, how could he be counted? Really powerful?

Throwing into this war, indulging in the killing, is this... is it right or wrong?

He has become stronger, this is a undoubted fact, this is what he got after letting go of everything and indulging in power. The price is that although his mental state seems to be calm, and it is no different from before, it is actually like a certain The place collapsed even more seriously.

It should be—was it worth it?

...

After a five-year war, the empire... To be precise, the northern border governed by Yongye won the final victory.

The side of the kingdom that took the initiative to invade by despising the empire proposed a peace settlement and was willing to pay a certain amount of war compensation. Of course, these compensations were accepted by the north, not the corrupt officials of the empire.

However, in the face of huge war reparations, the kingdom decided to present the treasures of the country in exchange for a peace agreement and compensation relief.

In order to fight against the empire, the kingdom relied on the captured Teigu to strengthen and process it with the power of the whole country, and wanted to use this to deal with the treasures of the rest of the emperor's kingdom, which seemed to be very suitable for Yongye.

Of course... that thing had fatal flaws, and no one could use it, so it was considered a gift of peace.

However, there is no way to use it, and no one can deny that it is a treasure. At least this is what the kingdom got during the civil strife in the empire. It took a huge price and took five hundred years to get it. It's just... So far, no one can match it. adaptation.

Yong Ye agreed to the kingdom's conditions and obtained the most valuable useless treasure of the kingdom. In theory, as long as the user's mental strength is strong enough, he can petrify everything in the blink of an eye—the petrified magic eye.

The gray-white magic eye with no impurities in its pupils, all the people who have tried to use it so far have become fossils. In theory, no one should be able to use it, because according to the most senior craftsmen and scholars from all over the world summoned by the kingdom, the final analysis is that It takes a lot of mental power to use this thing.

This mental power is not just a firm will, but a huge mental power to drive it. According to a general sense, the higher the level of the life body, the stronger the mental power.

The difference between the mental power of ordinary dangerous species and humans is not very big. The mental power of super dangerous species is stronger than that of human beings. Only the super dangerous species of mythical and legendary creatures can have that kind of powerful mental power that is suitable for them. Humans are completely No play.

The kingdom gave this dangerous thing to Yongye, thinking that although Yongye is as powerful as a demon, he is called a sword saint on the bright side, and a sword demon in the dark, but after all, it cannot be a real devil, the result of trying to use it. It will only make him petrify, so that their kingdom can easily kill this confidant.

It's a pity... They don't know that Yong Ye, who is addicted to meditation, his spiritual power is not comparable to ordinary people... Just press the petrified magic eye on the blind left eye, and the magic eye will automatically become like water. It seems to be integrated into it, but he himself did not appear any petrification phenomenon.

It's just that his left eye has changed from black to off-white, and one more item... A killer with a lot of restrictions and side effects, no... In fact, because there are too many restrictions, it's not so much an attack ability, but it's actually used for defense. Better, and it just so happens that what he lacks the most is the defense against super-large area attacks.

The truce with the kingdom brought the same peace to the north as before. A large number of elite troops who had experienced war returned to their respective defense areas and began to recuperate.

In the increasingly corrupt empire during this period, there was a famous general who became a general because of his strength, just like Yongye. 'sExtract) woman - Esdes.

When Eternal Night fought against the Western Kingdom, Esdes, the female general with super-large range attack ability, took the place of Budd, the general guarding the imperial capital, and suppressed the areas where riots continued to occur except for the northern region.

Esdes may be very similar to Eternal Night, but in fact there is a huge difference in essence.

The difference between her method and Yongye is that Yongye will not torture the enemy, while Esdes will torture the enemy very deliberately, defeating the enemy's body and destroying the opponent's mind at the same time.

If that's the case, it's just cruel at best, but the real difference between her and Yong Ye is that in order to enjoy the battle to the fullest, she often deliberately humiliates the enemy after defeating them, letting the rebels go and telling them that the weak will eat the weak. The truth is, let them get stronger and then seek revenge for themselves. (It's mentioned in both anime and manga.)

Because Esdes, the general who suppressed the rebellion, is inciting war, deliberately leaving the flames of war, and wants to wait for more people to rebel, so as to enjoy the fun of ravaging and torturing the enemy, which can be described as a real super S.

As a result, the so-called repression did not have the effect of eradicating the grass and roots, and the rebellious Mars was not effectively extinguished at all, which led to the intensification of chaos in the empire. Just as Estes expected, people could torture and ravage her every day. .

Eternal night.

Not long after he returned to the General's Mansion, he let himself be addicted to cultivation again, until... He received a letter from the imperial capital: The little emperor wanted to give him a reward for resisting the kingdom's invasion, and hoped that he would come to the imperial capital.

Yong Ye has no idea of ​​refusing this. Although the relationship with the minister and Bude is not very good, after all, he has reserved a bottom line. On the minister's side, he did not directly kill the relatives of the minister, but only deported him, while Bude On that side, he is at least one-fifth more stable than the country... The point is that he has also resisted the invasion of the kingdom and avoided large-scale wars on the country.

Although the minister is likely to want to deal with him, it should not be blatant, and Bud is dissatisfied with him but needs his presence to stabilize the country and deter the north. Even if the status quo is completely equal to autonomy, he has no intention of rebelling. If he dies the empire It will only get more confusing, even if the minister wants to deal with him, Bud will be on his side.

The possibility of the Hongmen Banquet is not high, and Yongye is not afraid of any conspiracy, so he directly brings the elite soldiers in heavy armor and prepares to go to the imperial capital.

...

Eight years is a very long time.

Yong Ye, who just came to this world, used to be just a nameless traveler with two children, but now he has become one of the supreme commanders of the empire, and is hailed as the Lord of the North by the people in his jurisdiction, looking forward to him. Able to rule the North forever, and not return power to a decaying empire, allowing them to continue to be persecuted by the empire.

Although Yong Ye planned to go to the imperial capital, he did not go to the imperial capital immediately. Instead, he took a flying super-dangerous species to the seaside town in the east of the empire and came to the house where he left eight years ago.

"...Has no one been here?"

The small courtyard overgrown with weeds at the down angle, Yong Ye, who had no expectations for it, still felt a touch of unspeakable complexity. Even if it was swallowed up by the daily hustle and bustle, he could not forget the pair that suddenly disappeared. sisters.

Chapter 6 The second wave of visitors to the former residence

Yong Ye knew that the main reason for the disappearance of the red pupil and the black pupil was his body. He took it for granted that there would be no problem if the security was good. He also paid too much attention to personal practice and was unwilling to waste time shopping for vegetables. , which led to the abduction of two children.

However... There is nothing wrong with his behavior of staying at home. That is indeed what he will do. If he accompanies Chitong and Heitong to buy vegetables, it will be abnormal to him.